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- The Nurse Competence Scale (NCS) was developed to assess nurses’ generic competence in different phases of their careers and in a variety of clinical settings. It was developed to overcome competence instruments’ shortcomings in early 2000s, i.e. their lack of a strong theoretical background and rigorous psychometric testing.
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Mar 24, 2021 · The Nurse Competence Scale evaluates what nurses do in a broad perspective and covers both ontological and contextual features of nursing competence. It is sensible for experiences in context as well as for educational issues.
- Gun-Britt Lejonqvist, Satu Kajander-Unkuri
- 2021
Oct 12, 2016 · The Nurse Competence Scale is currently the most widely used generic instrument to measure Registered Nurses’ competence in different phases of their careers. Based on a decade of research, this review provides a summary of the existing evidence.
- Mervi Flinkman, Mervi Flinkman, Helena Leino-Kilpi, Olivia Numminen, Olivia Numminen, Yunsuk Jeon, Y...
- 2017
Results showed that the Nurse Competence Scale covers both ontological and contextual compe-tence, that the competence profiles vary in different cultures, cohorts and contexts, but that it is suitable for evaluating and following up competence development in nursing.
The 73-item NCS is a structured questionnaire and comprises seven competence categories. The level of competence is measured with a visual analogue scale (VAS 0-100) and the frequency of the use of competencies with a four-point scale. The NCS is currently widely used internationally.
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The aim of this study was to develop and validate a nursing competence instrument for nursing students in bachelor training.
A descriptive and explorative study design was used to develop the new Nursing Student Competence Scale (NSCS), conceived to measure the ability of nursing students. Scale development and validation were conducted through a two-stage process at one medical college in Taiwan from August 2020 to July 2021.
The participants were nursing students at MacKay medical college in Taiwan. The college enrolls 40 nursing students per year and has switched to 80 students per year beginning in 2018. Students who majored in nursing, who had finished at least one semester, and who could communicate in Chinese were invited for the study. Since previous temporary le...
Stage I: scale development
Item generation and reduction were conducted at this stage. Relevant concepts were first established via a literature review through which we identified core competencies among nurses or nursing students. Based on our literature findings, core competencies specifically refer to medical-related knowledge, basic nursing skills, communication and cooperation, life-long learning, global vision, and critical thinking. An exploratory qualitative study was then conducted using these concepts to coll...
Stage II: scale validation
We used descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, frequency, and percentage) to describe the socio-demographic characteristics of the sample (age, gender, grade, private/ public high school, and family location) as well as to analyse item scores. The independent t-test was used to examine whether the difference between the highest (top 27) and lowest percentile (lowest 27) groups differed statistically (p < 0.05). Both the critical ratio (CR) of more than 3.5 and item total correlatio...
Background: The Nurse Competence Scale is currently the most widely used generic instrument to measure Registered Nurses' competence in different phases of their careers. Based on a decade of research, this review provides a summary of the existing evidence.
The Nurse Competence Scale research findings can be used to continuously evaluate nurses’ competence for manage-rial, educational and health policy purposes. Our systematic review indicates the need for high-quality language translations and methodologically rigorous cross-cultural studies.
